Coin-package-sealing device.



c; s. amnonr. COIN PACKAGE SEALING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 25.-.I9I2.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

In ventor:

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NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AUTOMATIC COIN- OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW COIN-PACKAGE-SEALING DEVICE.

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Application filed April 25, 1912.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. BATDORF, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county 01" Kings, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coin-Package-Sealing Devices; and I hereby claim the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to coin or article package sealing devices particularly, though not exclusively, adapted for sealing packages of coin of different denominations.

The invention is particularly concerned with means for turning in or crimping the ends of the paper wrapper within which the coins or articles are inclosed.

The invention has for its object the provision of means 'whereby after the coins have been inclosed within the paper wrapper or wrapper tube in any manner, either by hand or by a package machine, such as illustrated in my co-pending application,

Serial No. 727,219, filed on the 22d day of October, 1912, the ends of the wrapper or wrapping tube may be turned in or crimped to thus seal thecoins or articles within the wrapper. 4

The invention has further for its object to provide an extremely simple and compact device adapted to wrap all sizes or denominations of coin, and one which may may be economically manufactured. In devices of this character as heretofore constructed and as illustrated for example in my Patent N 0. 998,834, dated July 25, 1911, the package sealing or crimping members are held stationary While the package is revolved rapidly to enable the crimping members to effect the crimping or sealing operation. This mode of procedurenecessitates the use of a machineor apparatus of some kind to rotate the package and also hold the wrapper securely around the coins or articles while the package is being so rotated.

In order to dispense with the necessity of" holding and rotating the order to simplify greatly crimpin a machine for the operation ofsealing or, furthermore t0 means for sealingorcrimping a package which mav be formed entirely by hand or by a very simple form of I have devised a rotatable package sealing or crimping member to which the ends of Specification of Letters Patent.

.sively turn or crimp crimping of the end of the 'spective of the means by which the package and provide simple but e cient package apparatus, I

' Patented Jan. 18, 1916. Serial No. 693,133.

the article inclosing wrapper maybe presented and by which they may be readilyand quickly crimped even when the package is simply held in the hand of the operator, or it may be in some simple form of holder, such as that illustrated in my copendin application Serial N 0. 702,150, filed on the 1th day of June, 1912. In this way I dispense with the necessity of the complicated mechanism for packaging the coin in its wrapper to prepare it for the crimping operation, and also dispense with wrapping rolls by which the coins may be wrapped and the wrapper held thereon during the crimping operation, and finally dispense with the more or less complicated mechanism for advancing the crimpers to pr0gresthe edge of the package while the latter is so held by the rolls, all as illustrated for example in my Patent No. 9598,83 1, above referred to. This simplified mode of procedure has the special advantage that coin in smallquantities may be packaged and sealed as perfectly and efiectively as the operation could be performed on a machine of my patent, thus placing the means in the hands of small banks or. institutions which handle small quantities of coin, forefiectively packaging coin without incurring the expense of acquiring one of these more or less elaborate machines.

In. short my invention presents in its simplest form a device for sealing a coin or article package by the turning in or wrapper irreisheld and presented to the sealing member per se.

With these objects in view the invention consists in a construction and arrangement of parts,a preferred embodiment of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an end view of sealing, interning, or crim ig. 2 is a side elevation oi said member detached from its motor shaft. Fig; 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of said member showing the crimper finger and means for. fastening same, in elevation. Fig. 4 illustrates. a convenient means for forming the wrapper into a tube to receive the coin. Fig. 5 is a view of a completed package showing the sealed inturned or crimped-ends the wrapper i'ng member.

the crimping operation carried to complewrapper end usually takes during the 79 tion; and Fig. 8 is a view of an apparatus crimping operation, which furthermore adapted to seal or crimp both ends of the illustrate clearly the security'of this sealing package in the same operation. as well as the positive stop shoulder for the While for convenienceI employ the terms coin within the package. In Fig. .6 the crimper and crimping in the followwrapper end 8, as shownin dotted outline, ing description, it is to beunderstood that is by the first action of the crimper given I do not intend to limit myself to any parone complete fold inward, as indicated at ticular arrangement or disposition of the 10 Fig. 6. The next revolutions of the inturned ends of the wrapper. inasmuch as crimper again folds this once folded end in it is usually found in practice that said ends upon itself, asindicated at '11 Fig. 7. I so are not usually crimpe in the common The diagrammatic views Figs. 6 and 7 acceptation' of that term, but are inturned are of course somewhat exaggerated for or infolded. I therefore use the term illustration, but it hasbeen found in praccrimp in a sense broad enough to cover tice that the inturned ends take substantially any arrangementof the ends of the wrapper the form therein shown. A more exact idea 35 by which they may afford an effective seal of the actual conditions existing in these into the package andv effectively retain the turned ends, is illustrated at 12 Fig. 5. That 'coins therein. is to say crimping ends take substantially In the embodiment of my invention herethe bead form there shown ratherthan the in selected for illustration, and as shownin extended form shown in Fig. 7 Neverthe- 9o Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, the crimping member less in practically all cases, it hasbeen found comprises preferably a cylindrical body porthat' the double fold illustrated in Fig. 7 tion 1 having a transverse-web 2 at the base takes place. It will be seen, therefore, that thereof from which projects a spindle 3 this inturned or crimped end affords a most which may be attached to or integral with secure and perfect fastening for ends of the the web 2 as desired, the spindle being package. It will also be seen from the above threaded as at 4 to engage a correspondingly description that while I speak of the \inthreaded portion of a driving shaft, such for turned ends as crimped they are not necesexample as the shaft of an ordinary electric sarily crimped in the accepted meaning of motor. At the inner end of the crimpertheterm, but are simply inturned. Howbody or cylinder is located the crimping ever, the lip at the extreme end'ofthe infinger 5 having its shank secured in'a recess turned crimper finger, does, as a matter of 6 of the body wall preferably by a screw and factin both instances, tend to crimp the inwasher 7 although any desired fastening most folds of the wrapper ends. means may be employed. The working end The term self sealed" meaning sealed by of the crimping finger is turned over as at reason of the position which the material of 7 (Fig. 1) to embrace the projecting end 8 the wrapper itself is compelled to take,as of the wrapper (Fig. 4) which extends bedistinguised from any extraneous means, yond the coin about the same distance as it such as gluing, or employing any other is beyond the end of the mandrel 9, as shown means, is an appropriate broad term to apin 'Fig. 4. .As seen in Fig. 1, thiscrimper ply. to this form of package fastening, an finger extends somewhat tangentially of the wherever this term self sealed is employed opening of the package receiving opening herein, it is to be understood in this sense. in the body portion and the crimper device In order to prevent the sealing finger 5 in operation is rotated to the left as viewed from abrading the face of the end coin and in Fig. 1, so that thisftangential arrangealso to provide a convenient positioning and ment serves to cause the finger to smoothly alining stop for the package when it is inand easily engage the end portion of the troduced into the crimper,Iprovidea center wrapper to turn the same in. It will be nostop surface such as a pin 13 (Figs. 1 and ticed that the space between the extreme 3) adapted to engage the center of the end turned in end 7 of the crimper finger, to the coin and which with the end of the crimper side wall of the package receiving opening finger holds the coin package in proper is such as to readily receive the several thic'kalinement or position for the crimping opnesses of the wrapper when coiled about the eration. This stop pin, conveniently so coin. The curvature of the finger issufticalled through the stop surface may be of ciently abrupt to securely and neatly turn greater area than here shown, projects heover the edge of the wrapper end or turn vyond the bottom of the wrapper receiving it in upon itse f to form the inturned sealed opening of the crimper device, in this case or crimped end for the package. the inner face of the cross bar-2 thereof, to

an extent equal to the depth of the crimped 131 for sealing, turning in or crimpingthe end of the wrapper in a special and specific manner, I have illustrated in-Figs. 6 and 7 the several positions .which the inturned thereof'in section. Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the intermediate steps which take place in the crimpingoperation. Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6 showing While I do not confine myself to a device the edges of the di bead of the wrapper and it will be noticed also that the inner face of the bend of the crimping finger is substantially flush or in alinement with this bottom surface so that it will be inturned or crimped to the desired extent determined by these factors to effectively seal the package and hold in the coins.

In operating my improved crimping device, a piece of wrapping material of proper length, preferably sufficient length to coil twice about the coins of a given diameter is rolled up on a mandrel 9, which is pro vided with" a convenient handle 9', and which has a shoulder 9 against which the one end of the wra per abuts and by which erent coils of the wrapper are alined. The wrapper may be of the form indicated in my Patent No. 717,964, dated Jan. 6, 1903, end diagonal to the each other. Again the Wrapper may be formed with the rear or inner endstraight and the outer end diagonal or pointed. The object of making the outside end diagonal or notched isto cause the end edges of the wrapper to wind spirally about the package and thus snugly hug the same much in the manner of the spirals of a cornucopia around the body thereof.

When the tube is formed, as shown in Fig. 4, it may be filled with the desired number of coins in any preferred manner, hand or by machine, such asillustrated in my co-pending application, Serial No. 727,219 above referred to. With the tube thusfilled, the same may be grasped firmly by hand and the end thereof thrust into the package receiving opening of the revolving crimper member and a gentle pressure exerted against the crimper fing'er. The crimper finger thereupon first inturns theendas shown in Fig. 6, then turns it in again as illustrated in Fig. 7 and finally heads the inturned end as shown in Fig. 5 The depth of the crimper finger from the curve to its outer end and the depth of the stop pin 13 determining the depth of the bead upon the end of the package. It will be seen, therefore,that with a simple apparatusof this character, perfect packagesof coin may be formed either in comparatively large numbers or as small numbers as the quantity of coin requires. Theapparatus may be especially advantageous Where small quantities of coin are to be handled and where a large coin wrapping machine, such as that illustrated in my patent referred to above could not-be used an economical proportion of time.

One advantage of this device Which'I especially desire to emphasize lies in; the fact that the coin may be wrapped'in any desired manner, either by hand entirely by placing the wrapper directly about the coins before being formed in a. tube as illustrated of the form having the length, but parallel topears to me at present l the tube, and b in Fig. 4, crafter it is formed into a tube in said figure, or after formed into a tube with one end previously crimped or inturned; The latter operation may be performed by presenting the coin wrapper upon the mandrel, as shown in Fig. 4, to the crimper device and turning in one end before the tube is filled with coin. On the other hand, a tube such as that shown in Fig. '4, may be used and a suitable filling holder such as illustrated'in my co-pending application Serial No. 702,150, above referred to, may be used by which the filled tube may first be crimped at one end and then the other by simply presenting one end of the package to the crimper, reversing the package inflthe holder and presenting the other end.

It will be seen,.therefor e, that my inven tion, in the broadest aspect in which it ap comprises a rotary crimping member adapted to receive and crimp a coinpackage whether the same is held in the hand of the operator, or in a convenient holder which may be in the hand of the operator, or on a proper rest or support of some sort. In any aspect of the invention, however, it will be noted that the crimper finger revolves while the package may and preferably is, held stationary, or it might be revolved in the opposite direction, and if, for any reason,it may seemdesirable, it .may be revolved in the same direction as the crimper finger but at less speed. The substantially tangential arrangement of the crimper relative to the body of the crimper member effects whatmay be termed a drag in the crimping operation to smooth oroverlay the end of the. wrapper without danger of tearing or abrading the end by acting at too abrupt an angle to the circle of the crimping operation.

In Fig. 8 is illustrated more or less diagrammatically an apparatus by which both 15 has splined therein a shaft 19 upon which is a pulley'20 and a second crimper member 21. An open ended tube of coin. may be grasped by the operator at substantially the center, one end introduced into the longitudinal stationary crimping member 18 whereupon the longitudinal crimpermember21 may be applied at the. opposite end of y exerting slight pressure longitudinally of the shaftl9 by any con venient means, the ends of the package will be crimped as heretofore described.

It, is to be noted that the crimpers in this apparatus revolve in opposite directions, so

that there is no turn in the hand of the operator, and it is simply necessary that the package be firmly held. I The crimping or inturning operations in this case are precisely the'same as hereinbefore described. To wrap coin or articles of different diameter I simply substitute members of-greater or less diameter as re uired.

While I have herein described particular forms of my invention, it is to be understood that the same may be altered in details and in the relative arrangement of parts within the scope of the appended claims. I f a WhatI claim is:

1. A coin package sealing device comprising a rotatable cylindrical body portion having acrimper finger mounted thereon and extending substantially tangentially within said body portion and adapted to inturn the end edges of a coin package Wrapper when the same are guided thereto by said body portion.

tendency of the package to 2. A coin package sealing device comprising a rotatable ing a crimping finger at the inner end thereof extending substantially tangentially vwithin said body portion and a stop on said body portion adjacent said crimper member to determine the depth of the crimped portion of the wrapper. I

3. A coin package sealing device compris ing a rotatable cylindrical body portion having a crimper finger at one end thereof eX-,

tending substantially tangentially into the bore of said body portion and a'stop surface cylindrical body portion havin alinement with the end of said crimper member and adapted in COIUUIICiLlOIl therewith to position the end of the package an determine the depthof the inturned portion of the wrapper thereof. a

In testimony whereof, I the said CHARLES S. BATDORF have hereunto set my hand.

I CHARLES S. BATDORF. I Witnesses: a

RALPH C. POWELL, JOHN H.1(ELLER. 

